Urbanisation in Roman Spain and Portugal : civitates hispaniae in the Early Empire / Pieter Houten.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Houten, Pieter, author.

Contributor:

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Series:

Studies in Roman space and urbanism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urbanization--Spain--History.

Urbanization.

Urbanization--Portugal--History.

Cities and towns--Spain--History.

Cities and towns.

Cities and towns--Portugal--History.

Romans--Spain.

Romans.

History.

Spain.

Romans--Portugal.

Portugal.

Spain--History--Roman period, 218 B.C.-414 A.D.

Portugal--History--To 1385.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

1 The ancient city on the Iberian Peninsula p. 1

1.2 Debating the ancient city p. 2

1.3 Self-governing communities p. 5

1.4 Settlements with urban functions p. 7

1.5 Demographic definition p. 9

1.6 Defining the city p. 12

2 The origins of urbanisation on the Iberian Peninsula p. 19

2.2 Geography of Hispania p. 20

2.3 Urban development in pre-Roman Hispania p. 22

2.4 Roman conquest and early Roman urbanism p. 44

3 Self-governing civitates in the Early Empire p. 71

3.2 Literary sources p. 71

3.3 Epigraphy p. 79

3.4 Civitates Hispaniae p. 82

3.5 Dispersed civitas p. 94

3.6 Garrison settlements p. 105

3.7 Universa Hispania p. 108

4 Secondary agglomerations and urban functions p. 130

4.2 Secondary agglomerations p. 130

4.3 Subordinate settlements in ancient sources p. 137

4.4 Functions of secondary agglomerations p. 141

4.5 Network analysis of the settlement system of the Hispaniae p. 154

5 Monuments for urban lifestyle p. 176

5.2 Monumental cities p. 178

5.3 Privileged communities and monumentally p. 192

5.4 Connectivity p. 195

6 Quantifying the urban network p. 207

6.2 City sizes p. 208

6.3 Rank-size analysis p. 209

6.4 Geographical distribution of large and small cities p. 224

6.5 Geographical overview and the problem of missing sites p. 244.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

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Other Format:

Print version: Houten, Pieter. Urbanisation in Roman Spain and Portugal

ISBN:

9781003022800

1003022804

Publisher Number:

40030476140

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